CanoArte
We then prepared the children for the launch of the mural painting. They gave a thousand ideas on how they imagined the fresco.
After a few sessions, they reached an agreement: they wanted a very colorful painting with all the flying objects they had drawn, and in the middle of it the flying pirogue (Canoa) with all the children aboard. This would represent the way we consider being able to go anywhere in the world with our pirogue.
We should also include the colored dolphin jumping in the waters of the Amazon river, as well as the faces of many people suffering and numbed by poverty, but also bearing the light of hope.
We also added a polishing box that the children for Iquitos have to carry daily, which enables them to help their families financially by polishing shoes.
Our houses are located on the riverside and are therefore elevated two meters above the ground on tree trunks so as not to be flooded when the water level rises.
Finally, we could not forget our millenary riches, the exotic fauna, the majestic forest, our ethnic symbols, and above all, the most dangerous river in the world: the Amazon.
After two months of work, we finished our mural painting. All the
children
were very happy to see their work of art completed; many of them
confided
that it was worth all the effort and care, but mostly that they had
learnt a
lot".
The co-ordinator Angel Gómez
